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I have been meaning to post this SnTT for several weeks now, but have not found the time to finish it. Chris Miller’s post yesterday, Do Your Users Understand a Stoplight Signal?, points out the new and improved quota reporting in the 8.0.1 mail template and has prompted me to finish this post. Yes, I [...]

Deja vu?  Not exactly.  More like stupid user.  In this case, that would be me.  I accidentally posted a locally encrypted database up to the Flow project on OpenNTF last week.  The problem has been fixed, so if you downloaded v1.0 Beta 2 last week please try again.

This latest release of Flow fixes a bug that was causing rich-text, email, and plain-text documents to be saved and/or sent even if no events or errors had been logged. This resulted in a log document containing nothing more than the start/stop time of the application. If you always want a log document to be [...]

Yesterday Bear McCreary, composer of the music for Battlestar Galactica, conducted a live performance of his music at The Roxy in West Hollywood. The performance was nothing less than outstanding. How you take music written for a full orchestra and condense it down to twelve musicians (plus one singer for a couple songs) I don’t [...]

“Story’s centered on a shy collegian who discovers that life in 1,000 years will be based on his blog.” Variety.com: MGM Sees Furture in ‘Bobism’

I don’t recall how I came across this film, but Helvetica is a documentary about — what else? — the Helvetica font. On first blush this may sound not only boring, but somewhat of an insane venture. After all, someone made a documentary about a font? Or, as we learn in the film, a typeface. [...]

This recent How I Got Started In Lotus Notes meme has me in a bit of a computer history mood. Actually, I have been in this nostalgic mode for awhile now, but it wasn’t until I was writing about how I got into Notes that I began to think about my first computer. For me, [...]

This meme really seems to have legs. If you are interested, here’s my story (I’ll keep it short). It started for me back in the 6th grade when the junior high schools in my area all had special programs and were competing for new students, especially those from out of the area. Some had arts, [...]

Today I am happy to introduce Flow, a full-featured logging engine for LotusScript. Originally named Extended Logging and used in our Logistic and VantagePoint applications, I have decided to release it as a free open-source project on OpenNTF.org. Now renamed to Flow, this LotusScript class-family allows for rich-text logging to documents and e-mail messages, plain-text [...]